Avellana

Avellana

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
RingiculidaePBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Ringiculidae
Life habit
epifaunalPBDB, for Ringiculidae
Motility
actively mobilePBDB, for Ringiculidae
Vision
limitedPBDB, for Gastropoda

Time the record covers

At least 66 million years on record.

The record covers at least 132.6 Mya to 66 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 137.05 Mya to 59.24 Mya.

Early Cretaceous — about 28 of 78 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 45 of 78 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 5 of 78 occurrencesPaleocene139–136 Mya — about 0.3 occurrences136–133 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences133–131 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences128–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–122 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences122–120 Mya — about 1 occurrence120–117 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences117–114 Mya — about 0.8 occurrences114–112 Mya — about 2 occurrences112–109 Mya — about 3 occurrences109–106 Mya — about 4 occurrences106–104 Mya — about 6 occurrences104–101 Mya — about 6 occurrences101–98 Mya — about 6 occurrences98–95 Mya — about 6 occurrences95–93 Mya — about 3 occurrences93–90 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences90–87 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences87–85 Mya — about 2 occurrences85–82 Mya — about 4 occurrences82–79 Mya — about 4 occurrences79–77 Mya — about 4 occurrences77–74 Mya — about 4 occurrences74–71 Mya — about 4 occurrences71–68 Mya — about 5 occurrences68–66 Mya — about 4 occurrences66–63 Mya — about 3 occurrences63–60 Mya — about 2 occurrences60–58 Mya — about 0.2 occurrences132.6 Mya66 Mya139 Mya58 Mya

78 occurrences of Avellana on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

78 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

23 formations

opoka — 51.32°N, 21.95°Eopoka — 51.08°N, 21.82°Eopoka — 51.00°N, 21.78°EMarshalltown — 39.78°N, 75.44°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.70°WMarshalltown — 39.55°N, 75.65°WDakhla — 25.50°N, 30.50°EDakhla — 25.33°N, 30.58°EGrès verts helvétiques — 45.98°N, 6.69°EGrès verts helvétiques — 46.04°N, 6.62°EUpper Haborogawa — 44.40°N, 141.83°EPerte du Rhône — 46.83°N, 6.52°ERaritan — 40.46°N, 74.36°WUmzamba — 31.10°S, 30.17°EUmzamba — 29.87°S, 31.02°EBeer Head Limestone — 51.08°N, 1.18°EBeer Head Limestone — 50.83°N, 2.45°WPrairie Bluff — 32.67°N, 88.29°WMount Laurel Sand — 39.55°N, 75.65°WBlackdown Greensand — 52.63°N, 1.13°WConglomérats de Bargy — 46.02°N, 6.46°EGarschella — 47.42°N, 9.90°EBranderfleck — 47.67°N, 12.17°ERaha — 28.65°N, 33.24°EMerchantville — 40.44°N, 74.24°WMikasa — 40.00°N, 142.33°EKingongo Marls — 10.02°S, 39.65°ECoporolo — 12.97°S, 13.08°ERurikfjellet — 78.10°N, 13.95°EGerharsreit — 47.81°N, 12.65°EMarnes de Smail — 36.20°N, 4.04°E

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The named rock units Avellana has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 31 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Avellana and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Avellana and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

1,254 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 62 sites for Avellana, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

33 references

Each of the 78 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 21 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content2

Picture of Avellana

Source
iDigBio
Credit
via iDigBio
Licence
CC0
Commercial use
the licence allows it

3D model

Source
Sketchfab
Credit
eloyandia
Licence
CC Attribution
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. (d'Orbigny 1842)